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Show oo REIMBURSES HIS OLD DEPOSITORS OLYMPIA. Wash., Jan. 31. Having reimbursed ills bondsmen and repaid thousands of dollars to depositors lost by tlieni when hls banks failed In 1893, J K. Edmislon, president of the Walla Walla Savings bank and tho Security Savings bank of Seattle, who has been a fugitive from Justice since his conviction in 1895, was pardoned today by Governor Hay and can now return to this country Edmlston was found guilty of accepting ac-cepting doposits after he know that the banks were Insolvent and was sentenced to two years In the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. He jumped his bond of $2,000 and Heed. As the years wont bc, he not only reimbursed his bonds-mon, bonds-mon, but sent thousands of dollars to Walla Walla, and Seattlo lo pay his dcpofcitorn. In granting , tho pardon. Governor Hay said that any man who had spent years In foreign lands working to repay re-pay depositors monoy lost In his bnnks. had done nil that could bo reasonably nsked of him and was entitled to his legal freedom. |